TORONTO — Look, it helps when you haven’t even broken a sweat yet and already you’ve been handed a 2-0 lead. It helps when you’re reminded — when everyone in baseball is reminded — the Yankees have a chance to score somewhere between a trillion and a gazillion runs this year, give or take.
“I’m happy those guys are here,” Luis Severino said, slyly.
“I’m happy I don’t have to face those guys,” Severino added, smartly.
Every fifth day, you can believe that those guys — the “big hairy monsters” as Brian Cashman has always called the Yankees’ most powerful power hitters — will gladly reciprocate the feeling.